Yup, it’s come around again. Time for the academy to award the movies with the biggest budgets with little gold statues and to leave out the great little independent films that actually have some heart, and a storyline. Naturally, Brokeback Mountain has cleared up with the most nominations of any film, including Best Picture, hardly a surprise. Although the Screen Actors Guild snubbed the movie, this was unlikely to happen at the Oscars, afterall, it is virtually run by the [...]

Google’s censorship over the Chinese edition of its search engine has come into force. For those who didn’t already know, last week Google decided to censor its site in compliance with strict government rules on free-speech so that it could finally be viewable in China, after many searches being blocked almost since Googles inception. Google argues that it would be better for them to censor and be allowed to remain online in the country, that to pull out altogether. Free-speech [...]

Well, it’s another Sunday afternoon. One Sunday every month, I have to work. It’s a boring task, as generally, there is nothing to do. My job is to be here in case there is an incident. Server goes down, telephones stop working, printer blows up, etc. You know, the usual ‘issues’ that people without the word ‘support’ in their job title are incapable of dealing with. But, since so few people actually work on a Sunday, there is hardly ever [...]

The South Wales Echo has covered this mornings ticket rush in a small article; Eager Morrissey fans bombarded St David’s Hall’s box office and internet ticket agents as his Cardiff show sold out in an hour today. Tickets to see the former Smiths frontman at the Cardiff venue on Monday, May 15, went on sale at 9am today. More than 200 tickets were sold on the internet in the first 10 minutes. All of the general sale tickets, including those [...]

8, in fact. The tickets actually went on sale, on Ticketmaster, by my count, at 8:57. But hell. I’m not complaining. Ticketmaster & See, the main online ticket sales sites had all seating tickets. I bought 4. Best seats in the house. Tier 11. Seated in direct line of sight of the stage. When I got hold of a seating plan, however, I noticed that there was space for ‘stalls’ in front of the stage. I wanted to get my [...]